English - Poet | August 19, 1631 - May 12, 1700
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
John Dryden
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Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
TodayTomorrowWorstLivedThy
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
GoodWorldLookKnowKnowingOwn
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
LawFirstLastPrerogative
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
FateThingsObeyMustAll Things
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
EducationManChildBelieveWhere
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
LoveLove IsFateChoiceOur
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
TruthFaceLovedSeenOnlyNeeds
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
ForgivenessWrongDoneBelongWho
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
FearDeathKnowNothingWhere
All heiresses are beautiful.
Beautiful
War is the trade of Kings.
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